Narrowly interpreting the relationships between nature and security and prioritising the national security of a few risks repeating past environmental securitisation mistakes, doing little to address the drivers of biodiversity loss. This briefing explores what a more holistic approach to nature, peace and security should encompass, and offers recommendations for its development.
We believe that a more systematic and comprehensive approach to monitoring environmental change in areas affected by conflicts could radically improve how damage is understood, perceived and addressed. Here we introduce our contribution to that vision, our Wartime IncidentS to ENvironment Database, or WISEN.
The ICC has published a new policy on how environmental considerations can be integrated into its approach to humanity’s most serious crimes. Lydia Millar examines what the policy says, how it could contribute to accountability processes, and why it’s not the end of the story.
The scale of environmental devastation caused by armed conflicts and military activities is accelerating humanitarian crises and ecological collapse in ways we can no longer afford to ignore.
The Colombian presidency of COP16 and its Paz Con La Naturaleza initiative is a huge opportunity to begin to integrate peace and security considerations into the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, to encourage research and to operationalise the Convention on Biological Diversity to support biodiversity protection in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
Part 1 of a joint open source investigation by the Ukrainian Archive and CEOBS into the recurring Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, which focuses on air pollution and examines the applicable legal framework.
Joint statement on behalf of 14 organisations calling for the proposed intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on chemicals, waste and pollution include conflict pollution and the toxic remnants of war within the scope of its work.
Joint statement on the potential role of a science-policy panel in addressing the health and ecological impact of conflict pollution and the toxic remnants of war.
